The aside (was: Crash when running 1.6.0_03)

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Nicklas,

> As an aside, it's a really, really bad idea to ever call System.gc()
> directly in a modern JVM.  It's much better to leave it to the JVM  
> to decide
> when to do garbage collection.

Interesting. Could you elaborate on this? What makes doing a manual  
gc() so bad? Any documents on the 'web that talk about this in detail?

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